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Two severe flood warnings, meaning there is a danger to life, have been issued for the River Severn at the Wharfage in Ironbridge and in Wribbenhall, Bewdley, where levels could overtop the ...
Heavy rains continued to bring devastating floods to areas of Worcestershire in the UK on February 27 as new weather warnings were issued for the region.Video posted online shows a flooded ...
Drone footage taken on February 25 shows the severity of flooding in Bridgnorth, an English town on the River Severn.Thomas Paul Hutchinson, who recorded this footage, told Storyful he lives about ...
The town centre is partially built on a hill whose elevation is, at its highest, 246 feet (75 m) above sea level. The longest river in the UK, the River Severn, flows through the town, forming a meander around its centre. [4] The town is subject to flooding from the river. Shrewsbury School, with its boathouse on the River Severn in the foreground.
In Shrewsbury, several residents were forced to leave their homes as a result of rising water levels on the River Severn at Welsh Bridge. [8] In Worcester, the city centre was partially affected by flooding. [9] Dunham Bridge, which carries the A57 over the River Trent, was closed to motorists for over a week. [10]
6 February 1809, the Newnham on Severn to Arlingham Passage ferryboat sank in full view of people on both banks of the Severn. Two boatmen on board drowned. 1 February 1868, at the bridge over the Severn at Caersws an approach embankment, damaged by flood water, collapsed under a goods train. The driver and fireman were killed.
A further 76 flood warnings, where flooding is expected, and 152 flood alerts, warning of possible flooding, have been issued by the EA. The Met Office earlier had in place a yellow weather ...
The Afon Clywedog is an upland headwater tributary of the River Severn in Powys, Wales. It is approximately 29 km (18 mi) long and has its source on the flanks of Plynlimon and has its confluence with the Severn in Llanidloes. The annual rainfall over the catchment is between 1,737 mm (68.4 in) and 1,836 mm (72.3 in). [1]